Just as with Auschwitz, the most incriminating evidence was destroyed. However, recent excavations on the site of the Belzec extermination camp by an archaeological team revealed mass graves of thousands of bodies that the Germans did not incinerate, as well as ashes of incinerated bodies. [195]
Another document that has come to light recently is a daily report from the military commander in the General Government, an administrative unit in German occupied Poland, from October 1942 about Treblinka. The report states:
Supreme Command ... informs that the Jews in Treblinka are not adequately buried and that, as a result, an unbearable body stench befouls the air. [196]
Treblinka camp commandant Franz Stangl testified at his trial that dead bodies were excavated at the beginning of 1943 to be burned along with those of recently gassed prisoners. [197]
